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Sunday, June 4, 2017

WSJ’s Kimberly Strassel Raves About What Trump Got Done This Week

Well, Ok, Somebody Has to be Apologist in Chief

For pure comedic effect there is nothing like an opinion
piece in the WSJ. Recently it was
Kimberly Strassel’s turn to provide the gales of laughter. Ms.
Strassel laments the lack of news coverage of Donnie Triumphs.

Here’s
what actually happened this week, the “news” that holds real consequences for
real Americans:

Ok, to be fair let’s see what Ms. Strassel regards as real
accomplishments of the Trumpies.

Uh, maybe Ms. Strassel doesn’t know about the oil glut, or
that the major threat to energy prices is OPEC lead by Trump’s BFF the Saudis.

In
related news, the Dakota Access Pipeline finally went live.

Uh, not really. A
whole lot of paper work and lawsuits are ahead.
This ain’t happening fast. Oh
yes, Trump promised the pipeline would use U. S. steel. That ain’t gonna happen.

The
Fish and Wildlife Service took steps that may stop the Obama administration’s
last-minute endangered-species listing for the Texas Hornshell, a freshwater mussel.

Wow! Real Americans
must be ecstatic over that, particularly all seven who know what a Texas
Hornshell is.

Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross surprisingly said that he was open to completing the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, a far-reaching trade
agreement being negotiated with the European Union.

We defer to Ms. Strassel on this, we have no idea what the
TTIP is. But if the Trump group is
talking about completing it then it must be something Obama started. Maybe a little credit for Barry here. Of course, Trump has just made negotiating
with the EU like 10 times harder than it was before.

Sen.
John Thune, the upper chamber’s third-ranking Republican, said his caucus had
moved beyond meetings and on to “drafting” the base language of an ObamaCare
replacement. The No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn, vowed the Senate would
“absolutely” have a bill by “the end of July at the latest.”

How this qualifies as something accomplished is another
thing beyond us. And ssince it is something
that Senaors are doing, if it does take place why the Trump administration should take credit for is
way beyond us.

And finally, there is this outright lie.

New
numbers showed the private economy adding a rip-roaring 253,000 jobs in May.

Uh, no. The BLS
reported on the May figures and they look like this.

Total nonfarm payroll employment
increased by 138,000 in May, compared with an average monthly gain of 181,000 over
the prior 12 months. In May, job gains occurred in health care and mining.

But remember, conservatives are faith based, not fact
based. And besides, since Ms. Strassel
was probably fed her information by a publicity hack from the administration,
all of this is not her fault. Let’s not
blame the sycophant.